✨ Medical Vocational Scopes of Practice
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Emergency medicine
A field of practice based on the knowledge and skills required for the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury affecting patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of undifferentiated physical and behavioural disorders. It further encompasses an understanding of the development of pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency medical systems and the skills necessary for this development.
Fellowship of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEM)
Family planning/reproductive health
The treatment of, and health provision to, patients in relation to contraception, reproductive health and associated primary sexual health issues.
Diploma in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Dip SRH)
General practice
An academic and scientific discipline with its own educational content, research, evidence base and clinical activity, and a clinical speciality orientated to primary care. It is personal, family, and community orientated comprehensive primary care that includes diagnosis, continues over time, and is anticipatory as well as responsive.
Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (FRNZCGP)
General surgery
A broadly based specialty which includes the diagnosis and treatment (operative and non-operative) of patients with disorders of: colon and rectum, upper gastro-intestinal organs, breasts, endocrine organs, skin and subcutaneous structures, blood vessels including varicose veins and the head and neck region. It also includes the early and ongoing management of trauma.
Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
Intensive care medicine
The diagnosis and treatment of patients with acute, severe and life-threatening disorders of vital systems whether medical, surgical or obstetric in origin and whether adult or paediatric.
Fellowship of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FJFICM)
Diploma of Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (FCICM)
Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
Internal medicine
The diagnosis and management of patients with complex medical problems which may include internal medicine, cardiology, clinical immunology, clinical pharmacology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatric medicine, haematology, infectious diseases, medical oncology, nephrology, neurology, nuclear medicine, palliative medicine, respiratory medicine and rheumatology.
Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
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